Highly complicated and, quite frankly insane. I do not even want to fathom the cost of those components. And those schematics were ass ugly from the standpoint of someone who has to BUILD them.
But if it could be delivered more cheaply, with a smaller package, I would use it in a heartbeat. But my current dilemma that I am working on at this very moment is the possibility of wiring an RC servo gyroscope up as an input to a microcontroller to jerry-rig some kind of simple inertial navigation system, possibly in concert with an accelerometer..
These cardboard-and-petri dish robots we're using in class can't go straight or constant worth anything. My kingdom for a stepper motor.
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A laser rangefinder would be a nice addition but impractical in my case, I don't intend to use this at more than a few metres range where projectile drop will be insignificant. Also, I would be useless in the programming aspect of tying range data with targeting input
A small aside, to give an idea of scale this is what over 20,000 1mm BBs look like comapred to 10,000 3mm BBs:
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Update on this project, so far I have practically everything I need except the all important servos. The set I ordered over a month ago seems to have fallen through and should be refunded, in the meantime I ordered three of these with 75% more torque than my original order, let's hope they arrive soon.
Yesterday I received the paintball fill nipples which means I have all the parts to make the actual gun, I'll try and get started on it tonight.
Using on the move would require a passive infra-red seonsor, and relying on it to locate a heat source rather than use the change in the background to locate targets. An ultrasonic rangefinder based system woud be similar to that, only using only one Z level's worth of data though for comparisons, and using change in depth to locate potential targets as well as aiming points.
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Bit of an update, Prototype No.2 - conventional vortex block strafer type this time as per original concept- curing as we speak, to be tested within the next few days.
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Bit of an update on this, hooked everything up and servos refused to budge. It all seems to be wired up correctly and the right LEDs are flashing on the controller, my guess is that the 4 AA batteries don't have the cojones to make the heavy duty servos work. I've ordered some lesser servos to see if it makes a difference, if that works then I'll either gear the latter or find a better power supply for the original servos.
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